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CiteScore:
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Impact Factor:
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2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

5-Year Impact Factor:
7.621ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2017: 7.621To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2017 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
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Introduction to Pits, pipes, ponds – And me

Water Research is presenting a series of reviews, bringing an overview of the development of a water-related topic in the last decades. Below an introduction by David Dixon, editor for Water Research, to the latest review by Prof. Duncan Mara, titled "Pits Pipes Ponds and Me."

Prof. Mara's "Pits Pipes Ponds and Me" review gives a comprehensive and well-informed historical account of the evolution of the science of low-cost sanitation, wastewater treatment and reuse over the past 40 years.

The paper gives a clear account of where we stand today in the field of low-cost sanitation, wastewater treatment and reuse and recommendations for priority directions and recommendations over the coming decade. It is a personal memoir of Professor Duncan Mara and his work in this important field of science and engineering. These 3 elements are skillfully combined and interwoven. The first two elements will be of great use and interest to students, researchers and practitioners in the field of low-cost sanitation, wastewater treatment and reuse. The third element, the personal memoir, is appropriate and important; bearing in mind that Professor Duncan Mara's contribution to this field is second to none. He has truly been the hub of all these developments over the past four decades and much of the important work has been done by him, his colleagues and collaborators in many countries, and his PhD students.

The style and tone of the article are engaging. There is scientific rigor and much referencing, but also a lighter and in some cases humorous touch which is fully appropriate to the memoir element of this paper.

This "personal" review by Prof. Duncan Mara is the latest but hopefully not the last in a series of somewhat different reviews published in Water Research as a way of describing how individual scientist’s careers became entangled with and enhanced by their involvement in particular issues relating to water and wastewater research.